People v. Bazaure

— On June 26, 1963, at approximately 6:40 p.m., at Deuel Vocational Institution, two inmates with knives stabbed an officer. The officer was Connie Wendell Prock, 23 years of age, a novice-guard at the institution. He died that night of the wounds inflicted. Within 20 seconds after the attack he described defendant David Bazaure as an assailant. Suspicion was also cast upon codefendant Doreteo C. Betancourt almost immediately through the discovery by investigating officers of poorly hidden bloodstained trousers which Betancourt admitted were his. That same night the two defendants were placed…